Today is International Nurses Day, celebrated on Florence Nightingale’s birthday each year, and this year also marks the 200th anniversary of Florence’s birth. To commemorate this bicentennial year, the World Health Organization designated 2020 as the first ever global Year of the Nurse and Midwife. With a global pandemic to deal with, our nurses and midwives continue to put themselves on the front line to protect and care for others.

This is our time: 2020 is the Year of the Nurse and Midwife.
To mark Florence Nightingale’s bicentennial year, the World Health Organization has designated 2020 as the first ever global Year of the Nurse and Midwife.